One Farm Program That Works

IN campaigning for billions in
price supports, Washington politicos often give the impression that the
subsidies benefit all of America's 5,400,000 farm families. Actually,
only a minority gets them, since only five crops (wheat, corn, cotton,
rice and tobacco) are supported, and they are produced by the nation's
most prosperous farmers. Left out almost completely are some 2,500,000
marginal farmers. These underfed and ill-housed families are a farm
problem that few Congressmen talk about. Last week Congress grudgingly
voted $2,500,000 for their benefit, a cut of $1,500,000 below the
amount...